Reviews (page 5 of 14)
This whole thing sounds like the 90s. But aside from the bangers, everything else sounded like covers of their own songs.
This sounds like something I would have really enjoyed when it came out. Lots of good stuff on this record.
You don't like to dance you say? You don't need ecstasy to dance. But you do need to play this loud. Yes, louder than normal loud. Then maybe, just maybe, you will dance.
Any day of the week
A lot of weak fillers but the classics go hard. 2/5
Yeah, banger Fave track: Smack my Bitch Up
🦀🦀🦀🦀 / 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀 4/5
Still holds up - singles very strong
Uhhh bela forma de começar a manhã. Adorei os beats. Nunca ouvi tao facilmente uma música de 9 minutos
This gets an extra star because I recognize that it was influential and basically the first of its kind to hit mainstream. That said, this is not my jam. Half the beats sound like farts in an aluminum trashcan. It's full of energy -- and that energy extends, almost monotonously, the whole album. Also, how come no one ever told Keith Flint that an inverse mohawk is basically a baldspot?
Narayan could do with being another 9 minutes
There's some decent beats here, but overall I found it repetitive and annoying. I pretty much just don't like the genre. 2.5
I'm not a big fan of Dance music, but I quite liked this album which opens with the highly controversial "Smack My Bitch Up", although after a while all of tracks began to sound the same.
I might have squealed a bit when I saw this album come up. I've owned it since the day it was released, and it still holds up remarkably well. Some absolute classic bangers on here. Hard to be objective about one of my favorite albums of all time. May be the easiest 5 stars I've given yet.
The cover art is the best thing about this album
Nicht wirklich für meine Ohren!
Enjoyed it more than I thought I would. Saved some bangers.
Not my favourite genre
Way better than it should be. Smack My Bitch Up gets me too jacked up. I’ve had that, Climbatize and Breathe on the gym Rodri on lately. The rest of the album is fine.
Like the last one from The Prodigy, this is way too long. Breathe and Firestarter are fucking bangin’ tracks that I still hear sampled/remixed today
Listened in the car to and from my parents. Finally after a bunch of boring, safe, or otherwise just pleasant music I get something that gets me blood flowing! From front to back it's just dripping in violent, angry, post-Thatcher British energy and I couldn't get enough. Still feels like listening to the future and I'm dancing in the club on Omega in Mass Effect 2. Almost 30 years later and maybe we need to start praising the Firestarters again. A classic.
Rave apocalypse in a leather jacket. Rating: 4.6/5 Short Review: This album is pure adrenaline. Loud, aggressive, and built for chaos, it feels like running through a city at night with your heart in your throat. Favorite Track: Breathe. Snarling, unhinged, and impossible to ignore.
Really couldn’t get on witb this at all
I remember when I was younger and we all shared an iTunes account, my brother had downloaded Smack My Bitch Up and I thought I'd get in trouble if I listened to it. I can see now I was missing out on some great music. Can't help but wonder what else I've missed out on because I didn't like swear words 😔
крабеке
Fantastic. Techno madness.
8 / 10
Yooo
15 seconds in, this is so my shit. I think you have to be in the right mood to enjoy this wall of sound. Fortunately, I'm in that mood most days.
Quite good, interesting reading about the approach to sampling used. 3.8 stars
Goes hard. Kinda like eurobeat but rap coded. 4/5
So I'm familiar with several songs on this album - as would be anyone with a pulse in 1999. Smack, Breathe, and Firestarter were everywhere back then. At the time, the sound and energy seemed attractive and interesting just like Korn, Limp Bizkit, and much of Blink 182. And like those bands, after 30+ years it doesn't sound as fresh or entertaining. In fact, several songs in and the thumping beat and background tracking just feels repetitive and annoying. Old man grumpy? Maybe. But I doubt I'm alone. I award 1 bonus point for the mentioned songs but even with, for me, this is just a 3.
“Solid”
Quel banger!? Alors ça c’est une vrai découverte. J’ai adoré chaque minutes de cet album. Je suis contente d’être tombé sur ce site. Sinon je n’aurais probablement jamais écouté cet album. Facilement un de mes albums préférés désormais.
not my vibe but it's a vibe!
Brings me back to high school house parties! They are the best at doing music I don't enjoy!
Fun to workout to!
I can understand the appeal
Still a propulsive and exciting album. Doesn’t quite sustain the quality across all the tracks but when it works, it works incredibly well!
Fun electronic dance album. Personally, I would give it a 6/10. Not entirely my vibe but also not bad.
Ok beats and cringe lyrics.
Classic
Oh, great more fucking techno…and the morning after my pug decided to hurl on the bed in the middle of the night no less 😒
Verbal meme: Bernie Sanders standing in a winter coat I am once again asking why we need multiple middling albums from artists, electronic and otherwise. 2.5 stars. Rounding up because the 3 singles are still solid.
One of the best music videos of all time was made for Firestarter. Breathe is another banger but the rest of the album feels severely dated. But it still stands that Firestarter was a leap in electronic music. "I'm the bitch you hated."
Solid.
Muut kuin sinkkujulkaisut ei hirveästi iskenyt. Silti ihan ok. 3,25/5.
Not my thing
Maybe it's nostalgia, but this album is a jam. A lot of catchy beats and some big hits with "Breathe" and "Firestarter". Normally this kind of music isn't my thing, but it was fun and upbeat. 4/5
Yes!!
Some classic great tracks, fire starter is epic, smack my bitch up goes hard in th paint. Great for when you need some extra energy
After listening to the other album by Prodigy, suggested by this site, I thought that I was done with this group's albums. Imagine my horror when I saw today's suggestion as ever since the first Prodigy album I had listened to, I have compared every new album suggested, in my head, with the thought that at least it wasn't as bad as the Prodigy album; however, I thought every group deserves a second chance, so I listened to this album. Although I didn't think this album was as bad as the first one, it was only a slight step up, and I've decided from this day forward, I'm not going to waste my time listening to anymore Prodigy albums. Their constant repetition in both lyrics and music make them some of the most boring noise I've ever listened to. All that written, I did like the beginning to "Minefields", it's just too bad the rest of the song didn't hold up. My most insistent question was why does every song have to be so long?
I’m a fire starter? A twisted fire starter! Banger of an Album with classic tracks
Fav electronica album on the list so far, makes me wanna rollerblade real fast. Feeling generous today 3.6 stars
CRAB IS HERE!!! Can’t believe this isn’t crab rave. This thing disappointed me today. I always hear about the prodigy being life changing edm and it was just okay edm. Some of the vocals on this thing are shaman level garbage and some of it is alright. I feel like this is what other people thing linkin park sounds like. Leaving this project with a feeling of “yeah that was alright”. There is some great production on here though.
😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
This is lame.
Det hørtes jo ut som æ visste, bare lenger enn de to sangan æ kjenne til.
Nope
Appalling in every respect.
Yee ha. This is great hype music. Falls apart a bit on closer inspection but who cares!
I heard it but don’t remember any of it.
i'm sorry I don't think I can get behind an album that has their first track name listed as 'smack my bitch up'?!??! This whole album is a no for me...
Ok
Ok this kind of music is usually not y thing, but I liked it way more than I thought I would. I listened to it at work and found myself bopping my head to it without even thinking. Very cool vibe.
Was beetje te hyper voor de vibe gister maar is wel goeie voor als je boos bent denk ik
I also smack my bitch up
нет ну жир земли
Haven’t listened to this before, I started this project to widen my taste in music and this is what I was looking for, because I wouldn’t have stumbled upon it otherwise.
really good
Every song sounds the same with the exception of Narayan and Fuel My Fire.
i’ll be really disappointed if i found out that while making me my parents didn’t listen to this
whole album reminded me of the move Thirteen (2003)
Amazing music. How did I not here about The Prodigy before?
Starts off strong but loses momentum about halfway through. Songs start to blur together, still a good listen and a 6/10 for the strong start. Favorite tracks- “Breathe” “Diesel Power”
This is one of the best electronic/techno albums in existence, if you ask me. The 1-2 starting punch of "Smack My Bitch Up" and "Breathe".. then "Funky Shit", "Mindfields", "Firestarter", etc.. it's just a blast from start to finish. Liam Howlett is a creative genius, and his beats are simultaneously catchy, aggressive, and in-your-face.
Deserves 1-star for the first track alone. There's nothing here for me.
Some songs slapped. But it didn't make me go AAAAAAAAA :0 !!!!
Geniaal album!!! Zo belangrijk voor de elektronische muziek!!! Wilde deze al heel lang luisteren, maar nog steeds geen tijd voor gehad. De manier waarop het zo ruimtelijk en groots klinkt, is voor mij een van de beste onderdelen van het album. Geniale productie waarbij niks te veel of te weinig is. Het zal zeker niet de laatste keer zijn dat ik het luister! Om even te braggen, ik had vroeger een synthesizer van the prodigy thuis! Dus slayy !!!
I really don't care for this album. Lyrically uninteresting, which would be okay if the production could carry the project—but it can't. DNF'd
Great vibe, an album with 3 massive tracks from my highchool life. Lots of fun, memorable and awesome production
interesting
Before Listening: I haven’t heard of this album or this band! I’m excited to see what’s in store! After Listening: I wasn’t expecting British rap/electronic! The album wasn’t bad, it just was a lot of the same. The stand out for me was Diesel Power, which I enjoyed.
Keith Flint died during my master’s year. The lecturer came to university the next day dressed as Keith Flint from the Firestarter video, complete with some hairpiece that resembled Keith’s devil horns. We were doing our best to stifle laughing at this man’s peculiar way of mourning since we could tell the death had a profound effect on him but fucking hell was that a tough 50 minutes. Anyway, 5 stars in a grotty UK nightclub, 4 stars elsewhere.
Interesting and different. Not for me though.
If I had been older when this first came out, I would have ate this up.
Ganske kult! Går litt for tregt for en stor drum-and-bass-fan, så føltes litt ut som å høre låt på låt med bare build uten noe drop 😎
Digger det her, masse bangers. Shoutout til den beste konserten på UKA-15
Heilt greitt. Not my cup of tea.
Aggresjon som tror den er tøff, men som bare er slitsom. Allikevel mye bra her, selv om alle låtene er for lange.
thanks, i hate it
The first thing I noticed about The Fat of the Land was that it felt like the soundtrack to a 2000s movie about rebellious teenagers, like an intro sequence where all the characters are being introduced while going out, causing chaos, and just doing whatever they want and I thought that vibe was cool. Now, Even though this isn’t a genre I would normally choose to listen to, there were a few songs that I genuinely enjoyed. At the same time, a lot of the album felt overwhelming. I could understand the energy and the atmosphere this album required but it got to a point that it was too much for me to handle for long periods of time. It’s not something I would put on in my day-to-day life but overall it was a cool listen.
Niet helemaal mijn ding. Maar kan me voorstellen dat je dit kan luisteren.
Rule of Cool
This is a properly good electronic album. A good example of the genre. But to include it as one you must hear before dying is ludicrous. Off this list with thee.
Again something painfully 90’s and maybe one that didn’t age as well as other things from that period. I loved it at the time, bought it on the day of release but just feels a tiny bit one track. That said some great beats, and Narayan remains a favourite
A little too hard core for me
super cool i just wasn’t in the mood 😞
more my style but not quite my tastes just yet
Great album of curious new sounds.
Had more fun with this than I expected. Definitely gave me energy to start my Monday. Won't go back but great listen through.
Firestarter is the song that tells you exactly who Prodigy is: INSTIGATOR! Everything about this is designed to be provocative, to get you to talk about it. Their look, their provocative video for Smack My Bitch Up & lyrics designed to be off putting or offensive to the "normal" people. Punk! Very Punk in that sense.
Noise, but in a good way. Like something I'd hear in Jet Set Radio. I liked Mindfields and Fuel My Fire
Fantastic album.
High energy and better than expected
medio que sigue siempre la misma línea, parece que estás en una peli de acción, drogas y gente cool corriendo en una persecución. lo industrial no es mi onda pero banco los cantos árabes/la onda egipcia faraonesca y medio futurista 2000 matrix, sobretodo banco mucho al cangrejito de la portada.
I was actually sort of happy this popped up. When Firestater landed in N.A. I pretty much discounted them as a novelty. But in the last few years a lot of newer musicians I like have cited The Prodigy as a big influence. I’ve been meaning to check out whatever I was missing. So now the news is in! A decent play. Some of it sounded hopelessly dated. Some holds up. I think the biggest issue was that it’s shallow and repetitive. I did like the energy behind it.
One of the most terrifying albums ever to reach no. 1
didn’t listen i’m lazy
Oddly enough I could have sworn I reviewed this album already? Let me check…. No I guess not. I guess I just listen to this a lot. At least lately. So what’s that tell you? I also see that I mentioned prodigy 3 times in my album reviews. Not bad. I’ll need to check Bowie….yikes. So ya, this album. If dance or trance or whatever music this is classified as had a dark side, this is it. The beats hit hard, there is anger in the vocals and if you have seen these guys anywhere, you know that they mean business. For the genre, this is the top. So that’s how I will treat it. Even the instrumental tracks keep you engaged. Choice cut: Diesel Power
Crabs
Fuck yeah!
Didn’t expect this to go down so well with two kids under 3 on St Stephen’s Day, but they loved it
Tror det er første gang jeg har hørt et helt album av de. Så utrolig, grensesprengende og fet på sitt beste. Men så er det så mye ballast der at jeg en stund vurderte 3.
This record bangs. Almost every record here slaps, and slaps hard. Favourite Track(s): Smack My Bitch Up, Breathe, Firestarter Least Favourite Track(s): Serial Thrilla, Minefields
Hørt i snøstorm søndag 27.12.25 Det e jo noen bangers, men nei, fuck det her. Ta vare på - Smack My Bitch Up - Firestarter - Breathe - Funky Shit skip alt anna
xbox 360
Definitely better than the last Prodigy album I got
anxiety inducing by itself ngl but would make a great video game soundtrack for something like Tony Hawk's Pro Skater
DNFed bc I get the point (I think)
It was ok won’t listen again
Wow what a ride this album was, straight adrenaline the whole entire time. This whole album gave me Hotline Miami vibes and I am so for it, feels like something that would feature in the games. As far as electronic albums go this is something I would love to hear at raves and I can totally see the influence on future artists especially in the "Dubstep" and more modern electronic artists. One of my two problems with this album that keeps it from scoring up higher is some of the songs really don't know when to end, like it'll still be going strong and then just cut off and I was there was some kind of closer to each song. My other complaint is the album is a tad bit too long, I wouldn't cut any one song but I feel like by the time I got to Fuel My Fire I was done with the album. I am really surprised I didn't hear this one sooner but I am glad I checked it out now rather then later.
Not my thing but I can see the attraction. 2/5.
Homogenes Konzept, its a crab, bedauerlicherweise kein individuelles herausstechendes Stück.
Soll ich jetzt den Breakbeat zünden? 🔥
It's more grating than offensive, honestly.
Here's an ironic twist on my typical automatic 5 for a record with timeworn sentiment. 'Fat of the Land' used to feel like raw, profane, electronic overload, but now it's dated and deflated a bit. But I can't dismiss what an impact it made in the late 90s along with other technical bombastic dance projects like Crystal Method and Chemical Brothers. The Prodigy came in like meth-addled, psychotic hoodlums, but in the fun, danceable way. This record is their most well-known, but some of the others still feel more fresh and vigorously anarchic.
Absolute banger from 1997, powerful, unsubtle, dance meets punk/metal crossover. Their biggest seller - Keith flint made a huge difference. Has Dance music ever been so mainstream since…..?
Very prodi
Peak 90's dance music. Great beats, inventive sampling. Smack My Bitch Up, Breathe, Diesel Power, Funky Shit, Firestarter
Immediately felt VERY different to what I would usually choose for myself music-wise. But it’s a vibe, energizing. I liked Narayan a lot.
hated it
Music for Sega Genesis commericals
musically very interesting ! some right bangers on this
Genuinely curious why this is apart of the list
Coolo on a Monday
I remember a prodigy song on big whiney tunes and thinking it was great. The album has not aged well I did not enjoy it.
Cool ish
Hard-hitting, groovy, menacing, and a little too long and repetitive. The good tracks hit like a truck, but I feel like this is better suited for a dancefloor or a club than a solo listen.
Not really my cup of tea. Some good grooves created, but it all started lacking variety and sounded all the same to me.
Classic breakbeat anthems
Findet irgendwie jeder cool. Ich auch.
I remember this being better, perhaps it didn't age well? Still... its not bad.
Has one of my least favorite and all-time favorite songs on the same album. I can’t pretend I’m not a manwhore for a breakbeat. All the noise in my ears makes my brain buzz. Howlett’s sample game is so strong.
After days of bluesy rock bands from across the decades, having this roll along was rad.
Interesting....almost a 3 but didn't finish the album propaaaa - the beat precedes the lyrics tbh
This is outrageous, this is contagious Sooo futile If this was not an inspiration for Jeremy from peep show, i don't know what was
Where's crab rave?
Dance club classic from my youth. Played it three times during the day, felt like dancing.
Good album. Reminds me of Chicago underground in the mid-late 90's.
I don't understand the hype. Maybe the lyrics are too cerebral for me?
Nostalgic but not a lot else
How do you not like this?
Plenty of fun and incredible album art
The Prodigy’s seamless blend of EDM with punk, rock, and hip-hop elements was a real achievement on "The Fat of the Land." I couldn’t remember the last time I listened to the album—or whether I’d ever actually sat down and played it straight through—but revisiting it was far more enjoyable than my memory had suggested.
Man this is great. The up-tempo, aggressive electronica just creams my twinkie. This is stuff that just makes you want to move. The album flows really well. They pepper in the bangers at the right spots so the lesser tracks don't pull the listening experience down.
Call me dramatic but it’s very hard for me to care about an album when the first song is called “smack my bitch up”
You do not get more 90s Electronica than this.
I think the number of albums saying this is the seminal album of the genre is an indictment on the genre more than an endorsement of this album.
Solid
sounds like shit
I do very dangerous things when I listen to this album.
God hearing this album was a great, still bummed that I didn't get to see them in the US tour before Keith passed away, rest in peace firestarter
Great album, takes me back to the early 2000s!
If it has to be electronic music (which I don't really like), then I'm happy to go with The Prodigy. “The Fat of the Land” is the relevant album here, and I can still remember hearing “Firestarter” everywhere for a while. Of course, this album is also quite monotonous, but at least Keith Flint brings a certain punk attitude to it, and you have to give The Prodigy credit for the fact that their beats are instantly recognizable. At the time, “The Fat of the Land” could even be described as innovative—no one else was so consistently sitting on the fence back then. Conclusion: never my favorite album, but a respectable milestone in music history.
No es mi estilo
I bought this when it came out in 1997, and it hasn't changed. Full of banging tunes, but as an album it's a bit one-paced and by the end I'm tired of it.
What in the Tony Hawk Pro Skater is going on here. It is what it is, not on my daily or weekly or monthly spins but hey it's kinda a vibe.
Can't wait to ask Alexa to play "Smack My Bitch Up" in the nursing home some day. While the title/main sample are unnecessarily aggressive, it's an undeniably fun song. Diesel Power featuring a Kool Keith, is fine enough. Lots of shuffling drums and vocals that sound like they are being forced in and out of pipes or timewarps. I don't hate it by any means, but it has completely become background and indistinguishable by Narayan. Yeah, my general impression after listening through twice is that it is a little better than just fine, but not enough to be really "special." I like this for innocuous background working music, but couldn't see myself actually dedicating a listen otherwise. So in that sense, I see this as a 3.
Great album cover. Decent album as far as electronic goes. Certainly is aggressive. Climbitize was my fave.
In terms of British techno, this has to be one of the best albums I have listened to. Knew a few of these songs probably from other samples. Breathe was definitely in a video game that I played growing up but cannot find an answer for it. Shoutout to the cool ass crab on the album cover, he rules. Still not my favorite type of music but this album had me bumping.
Ah yes, all our parents favorite song "Smack My Bitch Up." I'm really enjoying this more than the last Prodigy album we had. Making me want to run through a wall. Loving the middle eastern vibes on Climbatize. Bassline is pretty sick. I enjoyed that way more than I thought I would. Low 4.
Banger after banger
Actually listened to this fairly recently after watching a Halloween cover set of theirs. This album is great, very of its time I think, but still stands up today as some of the best radio frienu industrial tinged electronic music. Such a vibe.
i alr knew this one cus of migo but never listened to it end to end. each song independently was p good the beats r fun but too repetitive altogether. it giving the background music of my nintendo gameboy racing game <3
3+ Stars (9/15)
Some iconic tracks here but overall I was surprised that as a whole the album is pretty boring.
Horrible
Contrary to the majority, no way did I need to hear this. I can't even eke out a 2.
This is not the crab rave I remembered. Weird, but grew on me.
Another Prodigy classic. They’ve got their foot on the gas the whole way through as they delve into a slightly more aggressive sound. Honestly I have no idea how I’d rank their first three albums, all amazing. A couple of the songs run a bit long for me on the back half but the album is primarily filled with hits. This is their best album cover as well, iconic. Rating: 4.8
absolutely fire. this shit is like crack. standout tracks: smack my bitch up, breathe, narayan, firestarter
Great tracks, I really enjoyed this. The album cover reminded me of crab rave but man did this album really captivate me. I always loved old school EDM as they influenced later artists that I also enjoy.
Nices Album Cover. Gute Musik
One of my favorites in the 90s. Nothing in the list so far sounded anything like it. I guess i dont always have the energy for this but when i do this is so cool.
Banger after banger. A classic electronic album that any fan of the genre needs to hear.
The best of their albums. Three classic hits and several other good tracks.
It’s ok. Some cool bears. They mix electronic with harder rock. Nothing revolutionary.
Every single track on this album is a hit. The aggressive tracks on this defined a lot of the sound I remember from the later 90s.
Loud and bombastic, this album doesn't hold back. Firestarter is obviously the stand out song, an absolute classic
7/10
nice textures and ill sample on the opener. Firestarter is a banger tho
techno
🙌🙏🙌🙏🙌🙏🙌🙏🙌🙏🙌🙏🙌
I remember the excitement of it coming out, but I didn't really get it then, and not sure I do now.
90s electronica, another artist that's new to me. I was able to enjoy the vibe it cast while I was working.
It’s great!
Not my style
Excellent album, a real music changer back in the day, awesome - Firestarter
Banger album cover. I'm not the biggest electronic music fan but this was fun.
The Fat of the Land isn’t really my jam, but I can’t deny how cool it is. The beats get repetitive, yet those counter-melody vocals keep everything moving with just enough variety. It’s big, loud, chaotic fun — and honestly, when my alt-FM station throws on ‘Firestarter,’ I’m not changing the dial.
This is a total masterpiece. I have loved this album since 1997.
Lots of noise, lots of energy. Felt like a non-stop action sequence from a 90s/00s movie. Not the best thing for a slow, rainy Monday morning but I don’t think I would have liked it much in any setting.
(64/100)
I think I picked this up the day it came out. I had the previous two albums and had always enjoyed the band, both on record and live. This album certainly includes a few classic Prodigy tracks - and Firestarter was massive at the time. Almost 30 years later it doesn’t sound as fresh as it used to though. Still liked it, but you can tell it’s of a certain era.
Didnt hate this (I'd expected to) but the first track limits it's score to a 3
I know singles but have never listed to a whole album. This was fucking great. I don't think of The Prodigy as a band I would listen to but I have seen them live twice and both times were incredible.
It's just unhinged fun and danceable energy, full of memorable hooks and beats, yearly listen mandatory
Legend!
It's alright
The Prodigy är riktigt jäkla coolt.
Ett helt mästerligt album. Skickade antagligen gruppen in i allmänhetens medvetande med låtar som Smack My Bitch Up och Firestarter. Båda två är helt enorma 90tals anthems. Men alla låtar på skivan är top tier enligt mig. Detta är en av mina mest formativa plattor. Skulle jag välja 10 skivor och artister som format min musiksmak och stil tidigt i livet så skulle The Prodigy vara med där, tillsammans med mina andra musikaliska titaner. Ljuvligt är vad det är. Jag tycker att det är svårt att välja om denna skivan som kom innan - Music for the jilted generation är bättre men båda är världsklass. Konstigt nog förväntade jag mig inte att denna fanns med på listan vi lyssnar på men det är ju självklart att så är fallet. Ve
hrll yeah
MASTERPIECE!
I listened to this three times in a row. It's so fun! I've always known 'of' prodigy, but never listened to a full album all the way through. Is all electronic music this good??? anyway, 5 stars, gonna bang this one often.
Amazing piece of electronic music. The sampling in this album is top tier. I genuinely don't know how people have the ability to stretch, warp, manipulate specific samples to fit so cohesively with each other. Obviously this album has the bangers everyone knows but the other tracks definitely deserve a proper listen too. Can see how this album could have laid the foundations for future releases in the electronic/punk/rock crossover such as pendulum, skrillex or chase & status. Iconic.
There are some bangers on here but that repetition really just puts a damper on the rest of the album. Still. I liked it for the most part. Top 4: Smack My Bitch Up, Breathe, Diesel Power, and Funky Shit All there is repetitive songs but no "bad songs" I guess. 3.25-3.50/5
I don’t know if I can give this a 5 when I only gave jilted generation a 4. The highs are higher but there are a couple of lows / too long songs.
Feel like the consensus was this dropped off compared to Jilted Generation, but I think it's still really good
I know it was ground breaking for its time but i feel like it didn’t age well at all haha
Loved this, great album!
I'm so happy to go from the completely flaccid Steely Dan to rock hard and throbbing The Prodigy. This is an album that really defined a genre in the late 90's and held prevalence well into the 2000's. With this album I think, high school, Unreal Tournament, CKY, that crappy movie Swordfish with John Travolta, Halle Berry and Hugh Jackman, and Blade. This album blends EDM and rock/punk in such a great way that really amps you up. Yeah, the style is a bit outdated now, but these songs went so hard at the time and were revolutionary by combining heavy rock with rave culture, and they fit so well.
Nowhere near as good as their first two albums. Marks the point where they began to try a little too hard...
If hilltop hoods and edm had a baby
Oh no, not again! I've seen other reviewers describe music like this as lobby music for a Nintendo 64 snowboarding game, and yeah that's it for me too. Hard pass.
Some bangin tunes
Rad
Unlistenable
Mixed feelings. Like the crab. You can't help but be caught up in the aggressive energy, but it makes me feel kind of...dirty? Lol maybe I need to be more open minded. I may come back to this
I turned this shit off after about 4 songs. It sucks and I hated it
Payday 2 music but without the crime (less fun)
Couple good songs. Turns into repetitive slop. I might come back to a couple songs, but I'll never listen to the full album again.
I like the crab on the album cover. Electronica hasn't been my favorite genre, but this has vocals that keep it interesting. I would say this type of electronica is definitely more palatable to me. I would probably listen to any of these songs again and if someone ever wants an electronica album to listen to, I can recommend this one. Mostly for the crab.
This is a great album. Love to listen to it during a workout
Wall to wall bangers.
Most of the time with electronic music I find it hard to focus on the music and kind of zone out. The first track was good, and Breathe was also pretty good, and distinct enough that you can actually tell the difference (another issue I tend to have with electronic music). It didn't really get better though, and never got as good as the first song. But that crab cover is sweet, so I'm giving it an extra star for that.
Epic.
Incredible album that stands the test of time
This was probably the first 'electronic' album I ever purchased. The imagery from the 'Firestarter' video was bizarre and menacing in a way that I hadn't seen before. I think they were probably one of the first, if not the first, electronic artist to really style themselves like a rock band, which was honestly the necessary ingredient for a suburban 18 year old like me to buy in, not to mention the MTV marketing machine, etc. Overall the album holds up, if in a background music sort of way. The beats are fun and it's not too dense. The impact of this album is about a specific moment in time and it never really transcends that. But fun to listen to for nostalgic purposes. And the album cover is fucking great.
This is outrageous, this is contagious
Not the worse, not the best electronic album. Did go by quick! high 2/5
I don't get it. Every single song on here literally has the same drum beat. Listening to this album was like going to a job you hate. You feel like you have to do a good job but it's not a pleasant feeling. At one point I stepped outside for about 30 seconds and when I came back in I thought it was still the same song. But no, it had gone on to the next song. That pretty much sums up the entire album.
good but not my thing
This was kind of around in 1997. Smack My Bitch Up was pretty controversial on the evening news as I recall. And the album influenced almost every U2 remix of the era. But it sounds of a time. Not a classic by my standards.
Beats are good, lyrics are concerning. Nice hearing an accent like mine tho. 2.5
Banger. The energy in this album is incredible. This album should appeal to a wide range of fans blending trance dance and rock into one dynamic cacophony.
I was massively into The Prodigy when this was released, following their brilliant sophomore Music for the Jilted Generation. And this really landed in '97, the band opting to move out of their rave and techno beginnings to incorporate elements of more traditional dance music, big beat, rock, punk and hip-hop,. But in the wake of their most successful period, I lost interest in them just a few years later with the follow up to this, Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned where they really leaned into the electro-punk style that had begun with the rise of Keith from dancer to frontman and I didn't return until Invaders Must Die, released over a decade after this. During that time, beyond the singles which you hear everywhere, I hadn't listened to The Fat of the Land and I still really haven't. It's a good album and it deserves to be on here for the capturing of the zeitgeist of the latter half of the 90s and there's some great tracks on here but they tend to be overplayed and the rest of the album dips, especially in its latter half. That'w despite it featuring the smash single Firestarter; iconic for sure, largely based around that video but I was never a huge fan and found it a bit simplistic and then grossly overplayed. If I'm reaching for a Prodigy album, there's 3 I'd choose over this but there's enough quality to return to it, even if it's not held up as well I'd hoped.
A good variety between god damn wtf awful to not that bad
I loved this album as a teen. Turn it up loud for the bass. I remember the Prodigy being seen as the next big thing for music in general, alongside (or was it after?) Radiohead. The energy and key tracks stand up well.
A quintessential edm album with some very famous songs of the genre. Found myself bopping away whilst listening.
always loved this album
i could listen to it again, but it's basically the same thing with different lyrics for the whole album kinda good though for a couple of songs
Time travelling to1997 i was only 17 and i remember as a huge Prodigy fan that i had bought this album on cd and that i had to work hard to raise money to do so.Good memories.Big Beat with a punkish attitude and a lot of great sampling from Liam and Keith's first time doing vocals for 4 legendary tracks.Maxim did 2 i think.The samples in this album are quite eclectic and shows clearly Liam's influences.I'll try to name all of them,as some were not mentioned in the album's credits. Smack My Bitch Up samples Bulls on Parade by Rage Against the Machine (1996),a riff by Kool &The gang's Funky Man,bass and drums of In Memory Of by Randy Weston (1973) and the vocals of Give the Drummer Some by Ultramagnetic MC's (1988).The video caused a small havoc for women's rights as it was considered as a misogynist one.At times you get a meditation vibe especially with the female oriental vocals.A banger. Breathe samples the video Fx from A Game of Chess Is Like a Sword Fight from Shaolin and Wu Tang (1981)(wait,i rated this whole album already!),Johnny the Fox Meets Jimmy the Weed by Thin Lizzy (1976),and The Rill Thing by Little Richard (1970).Punkish addictive vocals by Keith on top.Genius. Diesel Power samples The Fuz and Da Boog by Fuzzy Haskins (1976),P.S.K. - What Does It Mean? by Schoolly D (1985)(wu tang influences again),The Manipulator (Dub Version) by Mixmaster Gee and the Turntable Orchestra (1986).The few secs intro reminded me a bit of Air's Sexy Boy intro.Great oldscool guest rhyming by Kool Keith.This one is more like a hip hop track with heavy electronics.Absolutely fantastic. Funky Shit samples the vocals from Root Down by Beastie Boys (1994),horn sample of the Theme From S.W.A.T. by Rhythm Heritage (1975),The Fuz and Da Boog by Fuzzy Haskins (1976),and the Break! vocal sample from B-Boyz's 2,3,break song.Funky ,aggressive and powerful as hell.Modulation ''show off ''skills by Liam. Serial Thrilla contains a reversed sample of Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana (1991),a riff from Selling Jesus by Skunk Anansie (1995),and a sample from Nil by Autechre (1994).I.m pretty sure i hear 4 other samples as well but let's leave it to that,Electro-punkish outcome with Keith on vocals again.Be careful with loudness in this one especially at the end.It's like your laptop is having a seizure haha. Mindfields samples Amen, Brother by The Winstons (1969),basic riff is from Hip's Trip by John Barry (1974)(James Bond OST),King Kut by Word of Mouth feat. DJ Cheese (1985).From Big Beat to Breakbeat.One of my favourites. Narayan guest vocals are from Crispian Mills of Kula Shaker 's fame(somewhere in the middle the Narayan line vocal transforms into a mystic mantra).It also contains samples from Sport by Lightnin' Rod feat. Kool & the Gang (1973),CRYING OUT by Spectrasonics Virtual Instruments (1995)and the amazing piano is a sample from Josephine by The Milwaukee Coasters (1968).I remember back in 1997 that the piano hooked me from the beginning and that instantly made Narayan my top tune from this album. Firestarter samples the vocals from Close (To the Edit) by Art of Noise (1984),the wah wah guitar riff of S.O.S. by The Breeders (1993),and drums from Devotion (The Voice of Paradise Mix) by Ten City (1989).I think i have this one and Breathe as cd singles somewhere..This is the punkiest track of all.I still remember how scary Keith was in the video. Climbatize samples a horn riff from The Horn Track by Egyptian Empire (1991),Won't Get Fooled Again by The Who (1971), and the drums from Air Drums From Outer Bongolia by Jedi Knights (1996) who wanted to sue Prodigy for that ,but XL company of the Prodigy bought the rights from the original song Bongolia by the Incredible Bongo Band ,so they sued Jedi Knights instead,-Ha-.And they were not the only ones.This track is also a favourite.There is a certain funkyness and a hidden psychedelia.Kudos to Liam again for gluing the puzzle in a genius way. Fuel My Fire is a cover of Fuel My Fire by L7 (1994) and has also samples from Katmandu by David Whittaker (1993).Sorry not Firestarter, this one is the punkiest song in this album.Also a favourite and what a closing song! They were named as electronic punks for a reason. 5/5
a classic infectious and banging if a bit one note
Could have sworn we’ve had this before but one I don’t mind listening to regularly. I remember as a kid listening to firestarter on totp and thinking ‘if this is music I want no part of it’ and then hearing again and suddenly being all in. I must have got angrier. Probably a 4.5 that I’ll round up
Not for me
Always knew the Prodigy, but never listened to a full album of their's. I didnt expect to like this album as much as I did! Super energetic and a ton of fun! It does feel like it drags a little towards the back half but nothing to fully take me out of the experience. I'd probably rate it a 4.5/5 but have no issue giving it the full 5/5
Not as good as Music For but still has some great tracks and equally nostalgic
Definitely my favorite British electronica. Probably by a long, long shot.
Awesome!
Very good album, 101 of break beat and drum and bass music and UK music at all.
Fun electronic album that takes me back to my teenage years
da isch jo uuuhuere nervös. aber scho no geil. sochli die elektronisch version vo punk oder so? ich bin bi diesel power und finds scho streng zum lose. funky shit heisst so well scho nöd würkli funky sondern afoch breakbeat. es het die ganz ziit so grüsch woni zerst s gfühl han chömed vo minere umgebig aber s sind irgendwelchi drums irgendwo. serial thrilla hani seeehr streng gfunde. mindfields mit em weeeirde sitar? sound was sött das sii? narayan isch jo eeeeewig. wie isch das so erfolgriich gsi? aso ich finds nöd schlecht aber weird ischs scho. okaaaay firestarter isch huuuere geil. mega aggro
uhhh, kenn nur firestarter und omen vo ihne (bi omen han ich erst vor 3 jahr ussegfunde, dass das lied vo ihne isch und han jahrelang s metalcore-cover devoo glost. find s cover aber immerno besser😭) living off the fat of the land mussi sofort ah of mice and men denke hahah smack my bitch up isch abgseh vom titel undem chli komische orientalism teil no hard wnl breathe auno en banger sither laufts eifach chli aber finds no geil zum chli poste entsorge und so, es isch halt chli monoton aber gaht ebe scho au ab THIS IS DANGEROUS firestarter isch SOO en banger papa roach het das e ziit lang live gspielt hahaha chanmer vorstelle, dass s album am stuck chli ahstrengend chan werde, aber will ichs chli mit underbrüch gloset han, hanis na es verhältnismässig villsiitigs album gfunde v.a. live/eifach LUUT stell ichsmer extrem geil vor de "punk"-teil findi jz rein musikalisch weniger offesichtlich, hii und daa e e-gitarre machts nanig punk ABER vom vibe (und amigs gsang und perkussion) cheggi halt s punk-label trz?
I remember really enjoying this album in school
big 3
4.5 Fuck it it's creeping into 5* territory. Forgot how good this was. Funky shit through to Mindfields drags slightly but other than that it's banger after banger after banger. Makes me wish I didn't rinse this dry as a young teenager before my rave days, which are now sadly long gone. The best tracks are the less known ones. Narayan, Climbatize etc. phenomenal stuff.
Literally what was this album??? It’s a no for me dawg
Yah no. Lotsa beats but goes nowhere, really.
While this is a great album that propelled The Prodigy into the big leagues I'm more a fan of Music for the Jilted Generation myself
Teetering on 5. A tense, electronic album with perfect production and pacing. Having vocals on most tracks keep me engaged throughout and the singles brought back memories of a great era. Breathe with me!
This ain’t it
I fucking love this album, it’s in my collection - Keith Flint🙌 RIP
Great album, made the cycle to work pretty intense, just not something I'd typically listen too.
Nahhh lyrics suck for the most part and just not my preference
I must admit there are some cracking, punchy songs on this. It's not my thing but it's well made. Let's not mention some of the lyrics. Probably a 5 on drug infused parties, sitting at home in my sofa it's a 2 for me, with an extra star for punchiness and influence.
I’m sure this music is great when played at a party, but it just doesn’t do it for me when I listen to it. It’s just a bit uninteresting to me.
Great record.
Took me all of about 3 minutes to listen to today’s album. I started the song, listened for about 15 seconds, fast forwarded to the middle of the song and listened for about 15 seconds, and then skipped to the next. I hate electronica and no album is going to change my mind on that.
In the right environment I have no doubt that this album slaps (I.e. - 1am at a rave, at a house party that had the cops called on it, etc..). Sitting at the breakfast table looking at a plate of eggs is not one of those places. There are some banger tracks on this compilation that can get you hyped up in seconds, but again you need an atmosphere that is conducive to noise, movement, and small fits of chaos. Overall I enjoyed the listen.
I take back every time I said an album sounded repetitive in every other review I’ve ever written. If I wanted a man yelling at me over electronic beats all day, I would have kept my high school job at Radio Shack.
Brings back memories of Doug recovering on the couch from the previous nights rave rambling on about "yellow world". Still pretty funny. Other than the nostalgic chuckle not much here for me.
I started listening then I stopped. This album was really popular when I was in grade 11/12… ugh it’s not my jam. I didn’t like the feeling of having to listen to it again.
Good for the time, especially at the age was then, it’s too loud for me now.
Foda demais, me senti entrando em uma balada na Inglaterra nos anos 90, com um puta mohawk colorido. Nem espera a vinda do patasso já me largo em cima do crowdsurf. Com certeza essas música inspiraram várias novas gerações de músicas de eletropunk. Da pra ver que tem umas parada parecida em jogos do needforspeed e tals. Lembrei que samplearam a música mindfields em um loop pra tocar no programa do Celso portioli dos anos 2000, o nome era “curtindo uma viagem” e durante a “prova do vento” tocava essa pedrada (Sim eu fiquei o dia inteiro procurando até achar porque mandei pra um amigo autista que também lembrava). Simplesmente mágico, feliz por esse álbum existir e triste por não ter vivido a época em que isso tocaria nas caixas de som com volume no talo. Parabéns aos envolvidos.
Nostalgia noventista, as faixas deste album remetem aos graficos do nintendo 64, à utopia tecnologica das telas pretas e verdes de matrix. Inclusive, mindfields é tema do mortal kombat, não? muitos loops combinando baterias digital e acustica, muito scratching. Serial Thrilla e Narayan parecem ter influenciado diretamente o album homonimo do Kasabian. a ultima faixa deixou a desejar, parece que o album foi perdendo folego depois de firestarter. a capa lembra um caderno de arame do colégio.
Ouvi de novo pela pressão social, melhorou um pouquinho, mas continuo não gostando. Tô no time do ian! Definitivamente não é meu tipo de música, parece que não vai para lugar nenhum e fica só a mesma coisa repetitiva. Talvez como trilha sonora em alguma cena de filme fique legal mas para "só" ouvir a música não curti não.
SMACK MY BITCH UP. mt insano, superestimulado do melhor jeito possivel. segunda parte do album comeca a ficar meio repetitivo.
Muito bom, só não dou 5 pq achei meio cansativo. Poderia facilmente estar na trilha sonora do filme Corra Lola Corra. AMOOOO breathe e gostei de conhecer o resto.
Comentei o que eu achei desse álbum para Nuno Karam e ele disse o seguinte: "Perdeu uma oportunidade de ficar calado!" Diante disso, prefiro mostrar minha opinião única e exclusivamente por meio das estrelas, sem tecer qualquer tipo de comentário adicional.
Achei melhor que o outro álbum de eletrônica, as músicas parecem ter mais emoção e contar uma história e para ouvir uma ou outra música achei legal Mesmo assim, não gosto tanto do estilo de música pois achei o álbum um pouco cansativo e também parece algo pouco revolucionário
álbum muito foda. começa quebrando tudo com "smack my bitch up". exala agressividade mas não é nada cansativo de ouvir, realmente te incendeia. mais um que deveria ser 4.5
muito doido simplesmente me imagino numa festa fritando ao som dele, demais algumas músicas são meio repetitivas mas mesmo assim tem seu brilho, ouvirei de novo fácil fácil highlight absurdo pro início de Mindfields e Climbatize todinha, transcendi (no off que deixei the prodigy tocando pelo resto da minha noite, curti pacas)
Um álbum sólido na sua proposta. Exala trilha sonora. É exatamente o tipo de música que eu espero ouvir em um filme como "Matrix", ou um jogo como "Tekken" ou "Street Fighter". Tem personalidade. Tecnicamente consistente, muito bem produzido. É difícil fazer um álbum nessa pegada que não fique repetitivo ou cansativo, mas esse não é o caso. Músicas como "Smack My Bitch Up", "Mindfields" e "Narayan" exploram melodias muito interessantes, que fogem do esperado. Nem todas as músicas te prendem, mas nenhuma é realmente ruim. O álbum piora um pouco no final e finaliza com a pior música, o que é um erro. As músicas poderiam ter sido melhor distribuídas. Melhor do álbum: "Smack My Bitch Up". Pior do álbum: "Fuel My Fire".
Não tem jeito, Smack My Bitch Up é MUITO foda. O álbum é extremamente energético e muito bem produzido e me remete a uma vibe urbana muito boa. Fui ouvindo e pensando que o álbum era um setlist pronto com um começo forte e um miolo mais calmo caminhando pra um fim grande, mas a segunda metade dá uma caída e sinto falta de um fechamento melhor resolvido (uma coisa mais pesada). Por mim dava pra trocar a última com serial thrilla (uma das grandes músicas) tranquilamente
OK, I would gladly have died before having listened to this one. Some of these "must listen to" albums just don't click with me...but I'm sure there is someone out there who loves it.
Peak late Nineties. Brings back memories of freshman year in college.
Know & like the three radio hits. Other than that would not seek this out
Except for that one track, it just sounds like noise to me. Not my kind of album.
I know more songs on this album than I thought when looking at the track list. Shows how big it was when it cale out I guess. Its not a bad album, just not a great one for me. They found thwir niche and stuck with it. Ita almost a rock band approach to electronic music.